Number12's Nanofiction collection, Page 19

The Milk Ring That Got Him A Divorce

date: 12-2-99

As he peeled the ring
off the milk, his world
began to slow down. She
hadn't given him a lot
of clues why she left,
except to implicate his carelessness
with these rings as proof
of his unsuitablilty. Such a
little thing. He turned as
always to throw it away,
and returned to the present.